Charlie Albone has been hard at work with his entry in the Chelsea Flower Show.Source:Supplied

SELLING Houses Australia’s Charlie Albone has won a Silver-Gilt Medal for his entrance at the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show.

Being the only Australian entrant and having spent two weeks in the UK tirelessly working on his garden along with a team of 10 landscapers and builders, Albone is happy to have taken home the medal.

“I am so proud of the team that helped me achieve my dream of building a garden and winning a medal at The Chelsea Flower Show,” Albone said.

“Being responsible for an Australian garden at the show has been an achievement I will always be proud of and I thank [our sponsors] Husqvarna and Gardena for believing in me.”

He said despite the wrong type of pavement being delivered, the building and planting process has gone smoothly with the team spending 11 hours a day hard at work.

“Nothing’s really gone out of plan which was always a bit of a worry, you can’t just pop down to the hardware store. We did a lot of planning and it’s all gone to plan.”

Albone’s garden was designed with his late father firmly planted in his mind.

The winners of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show will be announced tomorrow in the UK. Picture: kuvaSource:Supplied

Charlie Albone is the only Australian entrant in this year’s show. Picture: kuvaSource:Supplied

The garden was inspired by Albone’s late father. Picture: kuvaSource:Supplied

“I designed the garden with the idea that if I was ever to meet him and tell him about my life as a man — he only knew me as a boy — I wanted to have a place to meet him,” he told The Daily Telegraph in January.

The garden was divided into three sections, the first of which celebrates life featuring a wide, 2m path that Albone would be able to walk down with his father and two children.

The second section had a water feature with a water level that droped out within three seconds, emulating the feeling one gets when they lose a loved one.

The third section was a sunken area with a fire pit and stone pillars.

The garden featured some Australian touches with sandstone sourced from the Capricorn Sandstone Quarries and shipped to the UK.

Albone said the gardens had caused a bit of a stir among competitors and onlookers alike.

“With some of the plants we’re using traditional English plants combined with plants from Sydney, Australia and people didn’t know you could grow those two together,” he said.

It features sandstone pillars and a fire pit. Picture: kuvaSource:Supplied

The illustrated plans for Albone’s garden.Source:Supplied

Albone and his team plant trees in the garden. Picture: kuvaSource:Supplied

There were a range of plants and flowers that thrive well in Sydney featured in the design. They included English oak hedge, Zelkova and Parrottia trees, rounded buxus balls, foxgloves and Delphiniums.

There were also some Australian natives in the form of Acacia ‘Limelight’, Dicksonia tree ferns, native gingers, native violets, Poa grass and Scleranthus.

“It’s a dream come true really, the construction team have pulled together what’s been in my mind for the last 18 months. It’s a great feeling,” Albone said.

Albone is husband to interior designer Juliet Love and father of sons Leo, 2, and Hartford, 6 months and runs his own landscape design company, Inspired Exteriors.